Virtual servers are the best thing since powdered milk! You may ask just why we make such a statement. The reason is because of the flexibility they introduce. With a virtual server you can create a tailor-made policy and wrap this inside a functional unit.
Virtual RADIUS servers are very different in concept and function from real virtual servers like one that is virtualized with VMware or VirtualBox. Virtual servers in RADIUS makes easy yet powerful configuration possible because they allow a clean separation of policies. This was not possible in earlier versions of FreeRADIUS.
One of a virtual server's policies will, for instance, specify the use of an LDAP directory user store while another virtual server will specify an SQL database. These two servers can then be used independently from each other. The decision of which virtual server to use can be specified in one of the following sections in the FreeRADIUS configuration:
listen: Depending on a specified...
